# Dface's Discussion of "Judging and Fixing Your Own Errors"

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**Created:** [August 6, 2026, 4:20pm UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/dfaces-discussion-of-judging-and-fixing-your-own-errors/2229 "2026-08-06T16:20:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![Dface](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/user_avatar/discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/dface/32/3926_2.png) [@Dface](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/u/Dface)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2026, 6:51pm UTC](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/dfaces-discussion-of-judging-and-fixing-your-own-errors/2229/24 "2026-08-11T18:51:14Z")

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Im writing about the following collapsed paragraph:

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> > [@Judging and Fixing Your Own Errors](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/judging-and-fixing-your-own-errors/492/1):
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> > Instead of trying to consider “How big a deal is this error?” you can change the question to “Which goals will this error cause failure at and which goals will succeed anyway?” In other words, which goals is it actually an error for? It’s not an error in terms of the goals it doesn’t cause failure at.

The first sentence:

> [@Judging and Fixing Your Own Errors](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/judging-and-fixing-your-own-errors/492/1):
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> Instead of trying to consider “How big a deal is this error?” you can change the question to “Which goals will this error cause failure at and which goals will succeed anyway?”

It’s so automatic for me to ask about the error I’m trying to fix for the goal. I never really thought about the goals that the error causes failure at. In a way, I don’t feel so stuck trying to solve the problem cuz the problem I think is bigger than I would think.

When asking this question:

> [@Judging and Fixing Your Own Errors](https://discuss.criticalfallibilism.com/t/judging-and-fixing-your-own-errors/492/1):
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> “Which goals will this error cause failure at and which goals will succeed anyway?”

That’s thinking about the goals that you would succeed at. You might be focusing too much on one goal where you probably have other goals that work just fine.

I never run into finding goals that work that are mine I think. If you try to find those goals, then you gotta know if the goal fails cuz of an error and then find if you have that goal. I don’t think that stuff is automatic for me

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